Run the whole job from one place.
Quotes, invoices, jobs, the schedule, crew time, and getting paid — in one tool a small construction company can actually run on. Built alongside a working framing & siding contractor, not in a boardroom. On iPhone, iPad and Android, with a web portal for the desk.
Everything the office does, without the office
Quote it. Schedule it. Build it. Bill it.
Every screen exists because a real contractor needed it that week. Nothing is in here to pad a feature list.
Quotes & invoices
Build a quote from your own price book, send it by email, and turn the approved quote into the invoice — no retyping.
Jobs & progress reports
Every job in one place: status, photos from the site, notes, and a progress report you can share with the customer.
Scheduling
Who's on which site, which day. The crew sees their schedule; you see the whole week.
Crew timesheets
Clock in, clock out, done. Hours land on timesheets you can actually read at payroll time — with no GPS tracking, ever.
Money, expenses & price book
See what's owed, what's paid, and what the job actually cost. Keep your rates in a price book so quoting stays fast and consistent.
Clients & team roles
Client history in one spot. Crew members see their work — not your margins. Admins see everything except billing.
Getting paid
Four ways to get paid. Zero platform cut.
Bank, cheque or cash
No account, no key, no processing fee. Record it and mark the invoice paid. Works today.
Card payments
Connect your own Stripe account and take cards on invoices.
Square payments
Already on Square? Connect it and keep your setup.
PayPal
Some customers just want to pay with PayPal. Let them.
Chalkline is never in the money chain. Payments go from your customer directly to your account. We hold no funds, take no percentage, and add nothing on top of whatever your payment provider charges.
On purpose
What we deliberately left out.
Most field-service software is judged by how much it does. Chalkline is also judged by what it refuses to do.
No GPS tracking of your crew
Your people are carpenters, not delivery pins on a map. Time tracking is clock in / clock out — nothing follows anyone around.
No platform cut on payments
Software that skims a percentage of your invoices is taking your margin. We charge for the tool, not a toll on your revenue.
No texting your customers
Client communication goes by email — professional, documented, and never mistaken for spam.
No replacing your accountant
QuickBooks stays. Chalkline runs the field work and exports clean records — your books and your accountant keep working the way they do now.
No data hostage-taking
Your client list and billing history are your business. Export everything, any time, in files you can open anywhere.
No AI gimmicks
Nothing in Chalkline guesses, hallucinates, or "assists." It records what happened on the job, accurately, every time.
Pricing
Twenty for the office. Three bucks a hard hat.
Pay for the seats you turn on this month. Nothing else, ever — and never a percentage of your invoices.
A six-person shop — you plus five on the tools — is $35 a month.
| Tool | Per month |
|---|---|
| Chalkline | $35 |
| Contractor Foreman | $49 |
| Workyard (time clock only) | $80 |
| Jobber | $169–224 |
| Housecall Pro | $234 |
| JobTread | $299 |
- Seats flex every month. Lay a hand off in November, the $3 stops. His hours and job history stay put, and he picks up where he left off in April.
- No caps, no tiers, no gates. Every feature is in the $20 — job costing, the price book, progress reports, all eleven calculators.
- Never a cut of your invoices. Connect your own Stripe, Square or PayPal and your customer pays you — the money never passes through us and we never mark up your rate. Rather take an e-transfer or a cheque? Put your own details on the invoice and tick it off when it lands. Invoice $50,000 this year or $500,000: your Chalkline bill is the flat number above.
- Your data walks. Export every table to CSV any time, no notice period, no charge.
Signing up takes about two minutes. The first month is charged when you finish checkout.
Billed monthly through Stripe. Cancel any time from inside the portal. Founding accounts keep this rate for life.
Want Chalkline for your company?
Ask anything — you'd be trusting Chalkline with your quotes and your payroll hours, so email and a real person answers. The same person who builds it.